The second video from their latest full-length Drums and Guns. If you really got into Thom Yorke's The Eraser then this album is right up your alley.
Sea Wolf
Get To The River Before It Runs Too Low
2007 | Dangerbird
Alex Church is known for his work holding down the bass and adding harmonies for Irving. Nowadays, he's shedding his exoskeleton as Sea Wolf. His music has grown steadily with high profile shows after a knockout Spaceland residency last year. Get To The River Before It Runs Too Low expands
upon his previous self-released EP with songs that are more matured and
dynamic. Thanks to recording sessions with Phil Ek (The Shins, Modest
Mouse) Sea Wolf is being realized and refined with a full-length due
later this year.
“You’re a Wolf” and the Echo & The Bunnymen
influenced “Ses Monuments” are the upbeat stunners on this record. The
songs are acoustically-driven by Church and his troupe with layers of
keys, strings and warm vocals that sound personal and inviting.
Overall, this disc is delicate and careful, rubbing shoulders with
Wilco and sometimes Elliott Smith. But Sea Wolf’s biggest draw is going
to be Church’s brave and original songwriting that effortlessly
displays his insecurities, relationship woes and realities that we can
all relate to.
-Scott McDonald
The first single from Places Like This. Some scenes were filmed at Teotihuacán ("place of those who have the road of the gods") in Nahuatl.
Q: I saw you guys open up from someone earlier this year – I can’t
remember who it was.
Doyle: Stereolab.
Q: Yeah, that’s right. I came to see you guys.
Doyle: Oh wow. That would have been in March.
Q: Were they good to tour with?
Doyle:
Yeah they were a friendly bunch of people, took an interest in what we
were doing – which isn’t always the case with bands that you support.
They borrowed a keyboard from us as well so they were indebted to us at
an early stage, which was good. We did about six shows with them.
Q: Was that the first time you’d been to Seattle?
Doyle:
Yeah, it was the first time I had been to the West Coast in fact. We
came back to L.A. and San Francisco in August and this is our second
time going fully down the West Coast.
Doyle:
Apart from those two dates in August. It’s good to be in Seattle. We
didn’t have such great weather but I had a good time. We went to Pike
Place Market – having a little walk around a few bars and restaurants.
The times have changed my friends. No more mixtapes or even mix-cds these days, everything is heresay and word-of-mouth. Whether it stems from a lack of time, or just plain laziness, it has become difficult to burn a solid batch of tunes for someone wanting to discover some new music.
Mixtapes used to be like a resume for someone you were interested in dating. Nowadays it's nearly impossible to talk to anyone and get a solid opinion about what kind of music they love, like or even despise. People are so uncertain about certainty. These little "mixtapes" contain 10 songs that I can't seem to stop playing. The first installment goes a little something like this:
The only official video from L.A.'s 400 Blows. Powerful.
Directed by Shafel and Levitz
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